When Saint Cono was a small boy, he prayed constantly and mortified his flesh, striving to become more devout. One day he ran away from his home in Teggiano, Italy, to the Benedictine Monastery of Saint Mary's, intent on joining the order. When his parents came to retrieve him, he scrambled into a bread oven that had been ignited to receive the day's loaves. According to the website maintained by Williamsburg's San Cono di Teggiano Catholic Association, when his parents finally found him, the boy leapt out of the burning oven unharmed, and "the flames did not touch him but instead sweetly caressed his face to splendor his renewed beauty." This was the first of several miracles before and after his death around 1120 at the age of 18. When the town was attacked in 1497 by Federico of Aragona with an army of 20,000, the saint appeared on the castle walls and flung back cannonballs being fired by... More >>>